Drinking coffee and tea in Early Modern Europe, a depiction of Tom King’s Coffee House, by William...
History
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) from the Resurrection fresco, by Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), c.1494 / Vatican...
The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, c.570-550 BCE) / British Museum,...
From the biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, by Huang Tingjian, c.1095 / Metropolitan Museum of...
Original of one of the Taureador frescos, probably ceremonial, from Knossos Palace, Crete, c.1450 BCE / Archaeological...
Leiden, University Library, BPL MS 2778, photo: Giulio Menna By Dr. Kathryn M. Rudy / 09.19.2016 Senior Lecturer in...
By Dr. Kathryn M. Rudy / 09.19.2016 Senior Lecturer in Art History and Medieval Studies University of...
Port Scene with the Villa Medici, by Claud Lorrain (Gellee), 1637 / Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence By...
Tomb of Margaret Beauchamp and her second husband John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (Photo by Memorino from...
The Quranic script from North Africa or Near East, ca. 750-800 AD is a unique combination of...
The Western world’s oldest surviving play is also one of its most sorrowful. Here’s a brief summary....
“Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in...
The ruins of Ur, with the Ziggurat of Ur visible in the background, Southern Iraq / Photo...
Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, 1830 / Louvre Museum By Dr. William A. Pelz /...
The dining room where the revolutionary war veterans dined. / Library of Congress By Emily Pearce Seigerman...
The “Little Palace” at Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
Test of the tactical nuclear weapon “Small Boy” at the Nevada Test Site, July 14, 1962. National...
Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down), by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872 / Phoenix Art Museum By Dr. Patrick Brantlinger /...
French ship under attack by Barbary pirates, c.1615, by Aert Anthonisz / National Maritime Museum, London By...
Battle of Naseby, hand-coloured copper engraving by Dupuis after Parrocel, 1727. The victory of the Parliamentarian New...
“Golden Man” in London / Photo by Katy Hills, Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Paul Simpson...
Walter Rosenblum, “D Day Rescue, Omaha Beach,” via Library of Congress. Edited by Joseph Locke / 08.01.2016...
Dadupanthi Saints / Photo from University of Oxford By Dr. Monika Horstmann / 10.01.2015 Professor of Linguistics...
The cover of The Dark Side of Genius:The Melancholic Persona in Art,Ca.1500-1700 by Laurinda S. Dixon, featuring...
A page from Lindisfarne Gospels, circa 715 AD. The Lindisfarne Gospels are attributed to be the work...
Marble bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic philosopher / Louvre Museum, Paris By Jennifer Delgado...
Ruins of rock-cut building in Daras, Mardin, Turkey / Photo by Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons By...
By Dr. Jeremy B. RutterProfessor Emeritus of Classical StudiesSherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus in the HumanitiesDartmouth College Common...
By Dr. Karl T. Steel / 02.01.2017 Associate Professor of English Brooklyn College Fragment of a 11th...
Premature burial was a very real possibility in days long past / Dominic Dibbs/Photodisc/Getty Images 10.03.2016 Patent...